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Right now I have my sound ducking a kick via peak controller.
I've got the effect I want but I don't want to hear the kick.
Muting it kills the ducking effect.
Putting the kick on the same FX channel turns the kick into a crack.

Can I somehow turn off the output of the kick and still use it as a controller?
Or would it be easier to just program the volume?

Bleys wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:48 pm

Or would it be easier to just program the volume?

Yes. 'Sidechain' is no more than a timed dip in volume. You can achieve this in many ways, but also as simple drawn automation, Doing sidechain that way, allow you to have perfect control over the shape of the dipping sound.

Besides that, since you are new in Forum
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You can watch Umcarujes tutorial on how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il0OH4I0-LE
Basically click "mute effect" on the peak controller

I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, but one workaround would be to sidechain the kick to your source with a compressor and then print the audio stems. From here, you can then mute the kick.

Edit: OH also; I'm not sure if this is possible either, but if you can set the sidechain to pre-fader, you'd be able to turn the kick down all the way and still have the sidechain working.

As others have mentioned, volume automation is another way around this. I would most likely draw it in myself.

Hi,

This was another thread that led me to find a solution to the problem of feeding a track into a sidechain without that track being audible.

Thanks to all the contributors, I found a way which I describe here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33743#p72601